Sagamore Beach, Massachusetts

In 1620, when the Mayflower arrived in Plymouth just north of Sagamore Beach, there were roughly 30 Native American tribes in southeastern Massachusetts. The Wampanoag people were the principal tribe of this area.[2] A heavily used trail that the indigenous peoples used to reach the eastern reaches of Cape Cod crossed the region. Later widened by European settlers, it became the main artery to Cape Cod. What is now Massachusetts Route 6A roughly follows the same trail. The names of many streets and roads in Sagamore Beach reflect the indigenous peoples in the area, including Tecumseh, Siasconset, Sachem, Scusset, Manomet, Indian Trail, Indian Hill, and Fox Run. Sagamore and sachem are Native American titles.

Although initially a village, Sandwich was divided to create the town of Bourne in 1884. The dredging for the Cape Cod Canal had already begun, and Sagamore Beach became the Village of Bourne. Europeans settled the area as early as 1637, but the population significantly increased in 1905 when the Christian Endeavor Society founded a summer colony here.[3] Victorian homes built in that era on the bluffs are still on the shoreline. The Sagamore Beach Colony Club, established in 1909, continues as a community resource today.[4]

• Sagamore, Massachusetts